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ranbarton

I know you guys have won Apple Design Awards, but one aspect of Apple you really don’t want to emulate are their nearly useless release notes.

Posted 4 years ago

This release fixed all known bugs.

[now listed on separate page]

In addition to the above, all known issues with sync stability are now resolved.

Posted 4 years ago

Great, exactly the kind of details I was thinking. :) If you can do these on future releases, I think you'll have a lot of happy people -- especially the ex-beta testers and other people that think like we do (tracking issues, trying to find new ones, etc)

Posted 4 years ago

We're going to post the release notes on our site (unfortunately we didn't get enough warning that Apple had approved and posted the updated version to the App Store to do this :)

Part of the reason for the not-particularly-helpful update description is that the description has to be available in all languages the App Store is available in (so we'd need to translate some reasonably complex release notes each time we fixed bugs if we were to include the whole thing in the update description). We'll point to the release notes available on the site in future update descriptions.

In addition to that, not all bugs are fixed through the app; we've been fixing server-side issues on an ongoing basis, so we need somewhere we can list these too.

In any case, all bugs that were possible to be fixed (i.e. not tracked down to iPhone OS issues :) have now been fixed.

Hope this helps!

Posted 4 years ago

Release notes (including server-side updates) are now available here. We'll be updating this list for future versions of the app as well as any further server-side updates that don't require a new app version.

I'll make sure that we're linking to this page in our next update description.

Also, it may be worth mentioning that each time we submit an updated version of the app to the App Store, it will fix all known issues at that time (that are not iPhone OS issues). We'll try our best not to make everyone update the app multiple times if everything can be batched into one update. :)

Posted 4 years ago

ranbarton

I ♥ your release notes, Emily. Apple has plenty to learn from you guys.

Posted 4 years ago

Amazing :) You always take it one level further and really consider what it is like to be a consumer of a product. Thanks Emily!

Posted 4 years ago